Haiku Contest
Haiku Contest Commemorating EuropeJapan 400 Years Relationship (The 3rd Haiku Award for Japan Tsunenaga Hasekura)
Year of 2015 could be considered as a 400 years Anniversary for the significant encounter and the start of closed relationship between Europe and Japan.
In 1613, a samurai, Tsunenaga Hasekura of Sendai Clan was ordered from his Load, Daimyo, Masamune Date to go to Europe. Tokugawa Shogunate which had an English samurai and a Dutch samurai at that time, helped Masamune to build the ship to go abroad. After traveling to Spain and France, Hasekura landed Italy in October 1615 and was received by the Holy Father Paul 5th in Rome in November, 1615. He also visited Firenze and left for Spain from Geneva, Italy around March 12, 1616.
To commemorate this history, we, the organizing committee of the haiku award for Japan Tsunenaga Hasekura, hold a haiku contest to encourage a much closer relationship through haiku between Europe and Japan. We would like to hold an awarding ceremony in Tokyo in March 2016 to remind his trip to Europe. And also at the same time we would like to thank to European countries for their grateful support to the Tohoku region where suffered the earthquake and Tsunami Disaster. Because March 11, 2016 will be 5th years of the disaster.
Guideline for the haiku contest
| 1. President of organizing committee |
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| Akito Arima, President of Haiku International Association |
| 2. Special Judge for the contest |
| Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, EU/Japan Haiku Friendship Ambassador |
| 3. Honorable President of the committee |
| Tsunetaka Hasekura, 13th direct offspring of Tsunenaga Hasekura |
| 4. Secretary General of the committee |
| Takashi Hoshino, Director of Kamakura Kyoshi Tatsuko Memorial Museum and the President of Haiku Magazine 'Tamamo' Kamakura Kyoshi Tatsuko Memorial Museum |
| 5. Members of the committee |
| Mutsuo Takano (President of Haiku magazine 'Kogumaza'), Yasuko Tsushima (Editorial adviser for Haiku magazine 'Ten-I') |
| 6. Deadline |
| January 12, 2016, Send to: kamakura.hasekura@gmail.com |
| 7. Entry |
| Entrants can send up to three entries Entry fee: none |
| 8. Languages |
| English, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, Romanian or any other languages which are spoken in Europe Please indicate your Name/ Address/ Country/ Male or Female/ Age /Email address in your mail. |
| 9. The Award |
| is Organized by Kamakura Kyoshi Tatsuko Memorial Museum and Cooperated by Haiku International Association, 'Ten-I', 'Kogumaza' and 'Tamamo' |
| 10. All queries |
| If you have any question please don't hesitate to ask to the member of the translation committee of the Award, Hana Fujimoto at: fujimoto@haiku-hia.com |